IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1204: Repurposing Saints in Prose from Medieval England, II
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Hagiography Society |
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| Organisers: | Niamh Kehoe, School of English, University College Cork Luisa Ostacchini, Wolfson College, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Helen Appleton, Balliol College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1204-a | The Repurposing of History and Mission in the Vita Sancti Birini (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1204-b | Virtual Pilgrimage and After-Vitae: Revisiting Saints' Lives (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 1204-c | National Identity and the Localisation of the 'Other' in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Abstract | This is the second of three sessions aiming to explore how saints' narratives were repurposed, and how saints themselves were re-presented throughout medieval England. In doing so, we consider saints' lives in Old and Middle English and/or Anglo-Latin across the borders of language, time, and place, exploring how the repurposing of hagiographic narratives can reflect wider social, political, and geographical concerns and developments. This session focuses on how ideas of place and identity were re-constructed in the act of re-writing lives. Papers -a looks at the idea of Rome in England. Paper -b looks at translation as pilgrimage. Paper -c considers the localisation of the 'other'. |